then all other presidents combined i'm sure obama's one whistleblower is an investigative journalism is nothing new what is new though is a report released by the committee to protect journalists who are going to highlights how obama's aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers along with the broad surveillance of journalists makes the current administration the absolute worst on press freedom since nixon now i know i report on this issue ad nauseum you're probably sick of hearing about it but just to show you the broad agreement with this viewpoint the c p j sites dozens of journalists from across the media sphere that concur take for instance david sanger of the new york times who said quote this is the most closed control freak administration i have ever covered or jane mayer of the new yorker who said it's a huge impediment to reporting and so chilling isn't quite strong enough it's more like freezing the whole process into a standstill or james goodall former general counsel to the times who noted that quote president obama will surely pass president richard nixon as the worst

president ever on issues of national security and press freedom look i could go on but i think you get the idea person who once promised transparency on a path to accountability has failed miserably at the livery in either so i think it's about time that we break that. in the book. it was a. very hard to take a. look. at that or how to act with that are right there are those. that believe.

that. guys today is a sad day for breaking the set because it looks like the drone king might be retiring his crown in the sun i'm worried about the future of drone strikes after cia director john brennan indicated that targeted assassinations maybe he creasing over the next few months according to brennan there might not only be a significant reduction in the amount of strikes but that the army might be taking over the kill switch from the cia surprising words coming from the architect of the entire drone program. don't get too excited folks there's still plenty of evidence that drone strikes aren't going anywhere obama's far from calling for an end to the use of drones altogether so those good old signature strikes are still in the military's deck of cards every terror tuesday because but because putting an

unfavorable light beam shut on the drone wars there is an initiative to make them more precise and improve that pesky two percent success rate hands are autonomous killer robots of course yes you heard me right making these already killer robots completely autonomous meaning that drones will be able to. decisions on who lives or dies without human control because you know if there's one thing that we can trust it's robots. you know here's what this. is. do the pentagon learn anything from i robot the do you do you believe that lethal autonomous robots or early hours should be able to out then get out performing human drive or ride better protection from potential hackers seriously seriously look forgive me for being skeptical but i don't know if it's a good idea to put one hundred percent trust into

a computer to differentiate between killing good guys and killing bad guys over drone strikes are executed based on mathematical patterns hardly a failsafe method to determine who is a terrorist worthy of being assassinated don't you think if anything i worry that the opposite is true without that human element autum eyes drones could be even more deadly and less precise so before we go bowling too much credit i'd say it's pretty clear that he's still sitting tall on that drone their own but regardless of this fact people seem to be stoked about the baseless rhetoric promising to scale back the drone program and this is all due to obama bringing back some of bush's old techniques to sort of reign hellfire missiles on civilians there is now more emphasis being put on cia black bag a case in point this past weekend u.s. forces carried out extraordinary rendition raids in somalia and libya to pick up high value targets and by high value targets i mean to targets that currently pose

no threat to americans this it's amazing that people are actually celebrating the return of the bush policy of extraordinary rendition exporting interrogation and torture but it's not surprising the. isn't america false choices all we have obama or bush kidnapping or sas a nation. that's the ongoing us government shutdown egyptian officials are criticizing the u.s. decision to cut a low portion of its one point five billion dollar annual aid package to cairo now secretary of state john kerry has said that full aid could resume on the basis that egypt's interim government provide a clear roadmap to democracy aside from withholding

a pittance of its cash allowance to egypt the us is also withholding deliveries of tanks military aircraft and weapons shipments interestingly enough israel is also expressing frustration over the u.s. cutting aid to cairo citing concerns over to stabilization of the region. yes it's a big mess and the involvement of so many international players and interest is only complicating the situation at home a break down these latest updates on how the global chess game ultimately affects the people i'm joined by egyptian american political activist dina darwish thank you so much for coming on and so do you left to egypt your egypt egypt an american you left there almost a year before the crew to protest against the muslim brotherhood why actually a few months before the crew i spent five and a half months in egypt this year. i was part of the what i what we called the revolutionary activists who are inside egypt and outside egypt and i was hoping that would help i would be able to help the process continue during

morsi this time with a legitimate stepping down instead of yes obviously we had a massive setback. on july third. because we we were hoping people like me that we would get rid of the islamist government which we can. as a right wing reactionary government and instead we got a military backed fascist government in my opinion and were you surprised by just being there i mean seeing all this unfold resupplies the audacity of the military to take over in the way they did and how do you respond to the justification that the military gave of why they did. well actually this brings in the so-called egyptian liberal elite who turned out to be neither liberal nor elite so they used a very short sighted strategy to. get rid of the islamists using the enemy of my enemy is my friend type of thing but the truth is the enemy of my enemy at this time is the ultimate enemy of social justice and genuine representation of the

demands of january twenty fifth. which is our get out of the military has been extremely brutal and shocking in fact and what i was really appalled by is you know i wrote got to see the headlines about the u.s. cutting its aid but then when you read further you realize that it's a very small amount of the one point five billion dollars that it gives annually saudi arabia is not cutting anything israel is criticizing the u.s. for its this isn't even a cut that small two hundred sixty million of the one point five billion what do all these different players reveal about kind of the whole the push and pull of the region all saudi arabia backing a government is that fanatically not a step forward then towards democracy. saudi arabia has been a historic opponent of democracy in the region democratization in general and israel is also interested in that military aid continuing because israel is friends with the elite of the military establishment in egypt so of course there would be

opposed to. unfortunately the military aid actually benefits mostly the us military industrial complex also benefits a few elite and their gyptian military it hurts the u.s. taxpayer because it doesn't really help egypt there are a lot of military experts and even the egyptian military who complain that they don't need a lot of the military equipment that the u.s. sends so who's benefiting from this the egyptian the egyptian people are actually hurt hurting from this because. they you ask the government gets access to the. now gets access to the. the air to fly over egypt. very cheap one point three billion dollars is really only zero point five percent of the egyptian g.d.p. and people don't benefit from that it seems like a no brainer to just cut all these human rights atrocities are going on and you

really realize there's other vested interests at play that don't have anything to do with the egyptian people pretty much which is really unfortunate how much effect will i mean yeah i guess you just answered how much effect will this reduction of aid really have i guess not that much when you look at the overwhelming it will hurt the elite in the egyptian military. which is that which is not a bad thing i think it's a good thing that you ask is doing sort of the right thing for a change. while the interim government of course i've received have done this massive round up of egyptian muslim brotherhood members and supporters get at the same time they say that they're moving toward a democracy a roadmap to democracy what's i mean how do you respond to this glaring contradiction here you know this is this is a full return of the security state and egypt this is a fascist puppet military backed government which is committing atrocities against journalists against massive massacres against thousands of civilians. really.

military tribunals against civilians i mean this is this if if the january twenty fifth revolution was point zero where minus stand now so unfortunate at what point i mean how much hope is there for a real democratic process as this military is still in control of the country well i i have faith that the egyptian people are going to wake up and one realize that the current government and the future governments which are probably going to be military backed as well because they're controlling the process right now i'm sure the people and they don't see results there. if not the going to wake up and continue with their with their uprising on their revolution and i know that you have a lot of contacts on the ground of course it's hard to gauge egyptian people's public opinion from the us there's a lot of conflicting sources right now of course at the end of the day as you just said the egyptians are suffering what do you think the opinion is i guess of people on the ground about the situation while there is massive media propaganda that's

fueling jingoism hyper nationalism. they're really spending a lot of money and effort to try to brainwash the egyptian public but eventually everybody is going to see that there are no results the media is spreading lies rumors. anybody who represents dissent in egypt is now either a terrorist a fifth column or a muslim brotherhood or a traitor really there's no possibility of dissent without consequences in egypt now which is which is very sad wow so the military is actually you know it's kind of painting a broad brush on anyone who's really dissenting in the media and they're pretty much controlling the media sources have great influence on the media also the media the state the statement is controlled by the military and the current government the. private media is controlled by the elite of the old regime and their friends

and people with a lot of money who who is not it's not in their interest to actually have a successful revolution under foreman in egypt that's why they're actually acting as apologists and propaganda spokespeople for the current regime and the military well i have no doubt that the people will rise up again. with revolution and i will area dina darwish thank you so much for coming on breaking down some of this complicated issue thank you richard it. amid the ongoing. coverage shutdown sorry you did so my mind is different officials are criticizing us decision but you know what you want coming up next we'll talk. to mike rupert about the collapse of civilization and they turned. the bucket. over. did you know the price is the only

industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across a cynical we've been a hydrogen lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers but once it's all just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks and rational debate and a real discussion of critical issues facing america by ever feel ready to join the movement and welcome the good.

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. at the risk of sounding alarmist worth facing a cataclysmic environmental crisis guys someone even say that we're on the brink of a complete collapse of industrial civilization as we know it think about it the

world is the pen and i'm contaminating fossil fuels and despite efforts they made introduce alternative energy seems like and dominate the market until every last drop is gone from the earth so why aren't more people sounding the alarm help answer that question and gain some more insight on the energy problems we face earlier i spoke to mike rupert is a former l.a. police officer and investigative journalist and author of the book crossing the rubicon the decline of the american empire at the end of the age of peak oil i first asked for his predictions if we do not change our current course of energy consumption. the basically every saying that we're looking at right now. major economic dislocations population die off is inevitable because there are ten calories of. on the planet we have six billion people on the planet now that weren't here before we discovered oil and natural gas. and we're also looking at other answers anthropogenic changes to the climate we're looking at climate

collapse all of this essential he follows a model if you will and predictions that i made going back to two thousand and three two thousand and four and in the documentary collapse ever sense that there is no recovery to anything like what we knew as a normal for us now that we have to find new normals and adapt to those and lot of the reports coming out of fukushima really now hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive water into the pacific for the last two years what do you see as the best case scenario for me and game they're. the only thing that i see that can make a difference at this point is for all seven billion humans who occupy this planet to realize a couple of things first of all that everybody's life is in danger from this the pacific ocean is polluted the food chain is polluted and we are looking at a rapidly deteriorating situation at fukushima where there are there are eleven

spent fuel pools two of which are in immediate jeopardy and where these leaks continue that the only thing that's going to make a difference is if all seven billion of us drop everything and also shed any preconceived notions about money or how money works or what needs to happen or any ideas of national power or responsibility this is not a japanese problem this is a human problem and that's the only way we're ever going to be able to approach any kind of a solution from fukushima right i mean given i mean this disaster aside this latest one can nuclear energy ever be harnessed safely given the fact that it's like a waste can even be securely stored. the absolutely not there is and a former prime minister not a con who was privatised or when the earthquakes hit japan has come out in new york city read it just recently and said every nuclear reactor must. shutdown now there are about four hundred fifty commercial reactors on the planet that is an imperative because we cannot maintain all of them and many of them are failing

already indian point just about twenty six miles north of new york has five times more fuel rods than fukushima it is a g.e. mark one reactor and it has serious structural and maintenance issues right now and that's just one example of many if if we want to leave anything for our children for our grandchildren any life on this planet the imperative is to safely shut down put into cold storage all reactors right now i couldn't agree more i think one solution happened i realize i'm twenty three is this the reactors here in the u.s. almost identical design terrifying there's no initiative to really shut those down and there should be a mike let's talk about fracking in the new craze across the u.s. reports are coming out now that show that fracking may not only be causing earthquakes but are potentially unlocking pockets of radiation what else can you tell me about this and other dangers that fracking poses of that has been confirmed multiple cases there's a news story that just appeared today that i have a to been able to read but it's a third story now confirming that the injection of frac chemicals deep into

specific substrata in the soil is releasing stored pockets of radiation that are three hundred times above what is an acceptable limit and that's a fundamental issue about our whole relationship with mother earth she has stored. elements that are harmful to life like carbon which she is now releasing in massive quantities and radiation and our pursuit of infinite growth on a finite planet is opening and has opened pandora's box and unleashing all of these plagues pestilences and all of these diseases it has to stop fracking is is is destroying the freshwater tables and aquifers all over this country and freshwater is in serious shortage not only here but around the world right. the term fossil fuel when you really think about what it is fossil fossilize matter compressed over billions of years worth of blowing it i mean it is magical resource i cannot believe or during the short side as a sounding mike i know that you've studied

a lot about peak resources can you explain what that concept means and which ones have already peaked. well the first and foremost and i worked i've been very active in the peak oil movement since two thousand and one and traveled the world wrote more than one hundred articles on peak oil and peak energy at my former newsletter from the wilderness and basically we we have we are a civilization that has gotten drunk on cheap abundant energy which which is disappearing rapidly planet earth past peak oil in late two thousand and five that's conventional oil all these things called oil now like tar sands which is bitumen. shale oil which is karajan none of these provide the energy return for energy investment and they are extremely destructive of the environment they are not ordeal and yet we chase those that's the same issue with fracking which provides us so-called cheap and abundant natural gas which is absolutely ridiculous

when our cap water catches on fire it causes earthquakes it set sets loose radiation and it poisons us right i think you said we need to stop this infinite growth in a finite planet and i mean really there is a peak to every resource when you're looking at everything on the planet today mike and given the news that i just saw a couple hours ago unprecedented heat will reach the u.s. in thirty years why do you think that us policy makers are more concerned with obamacare and is this other political squabbling partisanship in the systematic destruction of the globe especially with the u.s. just becoming number one in oil and gas production. well it's not just for that reason it's that they are incapable they are sociopaths they are psychopaths and they are completely and utterly disconnected from the fact that we only have one. one planet on which to live and we all live here together and if we don't save our ecosystem our habitat well there's no hope for anything in the future there it's not just extreme shortsightedness this this i would call evil but i think in

a broader philosophical sense looking back across the whole history of the earth in all of human civilization this is truly the death of a meme. a mindset a meme is what you think about before you think about something it's all the stuff that most people accept as being a given before they try to analyze and that mean is dying and it's breaking free from that mean so war for consciousness of which you are so much a part and so many of us are it's to break free from that to see and live in a new me where shuman energy is not constrained by lies we have been told i would say now for a good five six thousand years mike there seen the same trends these obvious trends that you're articulating right now where is the author looking at the same things. well it depends upon where you measure the alarmism. if you're looking for it from

mainstream media from c.n.n. new york times you're not going to find it because they are incapable of sounding the alarm however i'm in a very unique position as a result of my longevity two books on a very successful movie through facebook and through my own radio show to be in touch with the fact that all over the world there is a mass awakening occurring right now many people are getting this they are not only just dissatisfied they are aware of the fact that that there are priorities for ourselves and for our children that we're not addressing and i think this awakening is very much underway and i'll do whatever thing i can to fan the fires underneath it i know you are it's a beautiful thing about a minute left but what can we do to ensure that we're not just passive players watching everything collapse around us. i have a saying that i use called fire your weapon and it has nothing to do with guns and firearms it has to do with whether your expression of dissatisfaction desire for

change is an e-mail a letter to your congressman carrying a picket sign and being a blockade in front of a coca-cola ramp or a railroad line shipping weapons find a weapon and fire it we saw amazingly successful results with that in the recent. prevention of the united states. attack on syria and regime change the united states had had said which we've determined this is the only way where the the and the whole world stood up to seven billion people on this planet my guess is six point nine billion did not want to see that invasion president putin and russia played played a very important role in that but he's a politician and the world itself was pushing behind and he knew that the wind was at his back and we must not believe that we are helpless victims we must act as if we make a difference now because the only alternative is to lay down give up and die and i'm not like that and i know you're not and i know all the people who are watching

shows like this deeply want to be involved in this shift in consciousness life is about the struggle to about the fight thank you for being such an integral part of that my group or author investigative journalist. lifeboat our thanks so much. it was my pleasure see you soon. and if you're wondering what i'm doing when i'm not on air check me out on the twitter at abby martin. and you can follow me there you can find all my tween thinking segments from the show as well as this man and other had they like photos that i put up of my cat so please help us at breaking us that trending on twitter hash tag we can get credit on the twitter sphere but only if you're helping out of twitter check me out and having martin. have a great healthy right thank you miles. but. over time. did you know the price is the only industry

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